Topic “upcycling”
Plastiki
12,000 plastic bottles have been put together and now are on sail across the Pacific.
Plastiki is an upcycled plastic boat that started it's journey in San Fransisco and now makes it's way across the ocean to Australia. Stopping off at islands along the way, the crew on board look to learn and highlight environmental issues facing the Pacific islands with a mission to open eyes to re-thinking waste and it's possibilities as a resource.
High on cradle-to-cradle thinking, Plastiki's founder David de Rothschild was alarmed by the garbage patch story and got inspired to create an expedition to push understanding on the waste we produce and the innovation that is necessary to close the cycle.
Follow their journey here.
TRIPPED OUT PENCILS
Acid trippin' pencils on your body. Loving these accessories by Maria Christina Belucci.
(via haute nature)
TRAINED AMUSEMENT
An interactive public space for locals in Lima, Peru. Rides made from a scrapped electrical train project. The guys at Basurama have worked on many installations to turn public spaces into happy places.
More from treehugger.
SOME HEAVY DUTY BOOKING
Beefed up book casings made of reclaimed wood. You wont need a table to jot down those ideas. Just a bark. Container Coprs makes it good. Xylobooks.
(via containercorps)
Someone's Mum Knits
It's January, so someone's Mum takes your sweater and turns it into a scarf. You can post it to her and she'll post it right back - your new scarf that is.
It could be an adorable front, there may not really be a Mum behind there, but Reknit keeps it simple:
1. Send sweater to Reknit's Mum.
2. She unravels and knits it into something new.
3. A brand new, hand made, one of a kind scarf is sent back to you.
All for about US$30, here.
TOPLESS
Upcycled clamps + imagination + any surface = table.
Less space, more uses.
Get them at branch home.
MASKED
Bits of scraps and material remnants from designers Alexander Wang, Martin Margiela, McQueen, Bernhard Willhelm, Gareth Pugh etc made into masks for Franken-Fashion Mask project Dazed and Confused.
(via slamxhype)
Get the ULTRA WEEKLY++!